Andrew Scott

Andrew Scott

1976-10-21 Dublin, Ireland 59 Credits

Biography

Andrew Scott (born 21 October 1976) is an Irish actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, his accolades include a British Academy Television Award, Silver Bear Berlin International Film Festival, and two Laurence Olivier Awards, along with nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. Scott first came to prominence portraying James Moriarty in the BBC series Sherlock (2010–2017), for which he won the BAFTA Television Award for Best Supporting Actor. His role a...

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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

2025

as Lee Ross

Acting

World-renowned detective Benoit Blanc returns for his most dangerous case yet.

Blue Moon

Blue Moon

2025

as Richard Rodgers

Acting

On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Ric...

People Watching

People Watching

2025

Acting

The visuals for Sam Fender's single 'People Watching'.

Back in Action

Back in Action

2025

as Baron

6.5
Acting

Fifteen years after vanishing from the CIA to start a family, elite spies Matt and Emily jump back into the world of espionage when their cover is blo...

Quintessentially Irish

Quintessentially Irish

2024

as Self

6.4
Acting

A celebration of all things Irish, from sweeping landscapes to traditions and quirky sense of humor.

National Theatre Live: Vanya

National Theatre Live: Vanya

2024

as Ivan / Sonya / Michael / Helena / Alexander / Maureen / Liam / Elizabeth

8.1
Acting

Andrew Scott brings multiple characters to life in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, filmed live in West End, London. Hopes, dreams, and regrets are thrust into ...

National Theatre Live: Vanya

National Theatre Live: Vanya

2024

Creator

8.1

Andrew Scott brings multiple characters to life in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, filmed live in West End, London. Hopes, dreams, and regrets are thrust into ...

On the Red Carpet Presents: All of Us Strangers

2024

as Self

Acting

On The Red Carpet presents an in-depth look at the making of All of Us Strangers.

All of Us Strangers

All of Us Strangers

2023

as Adam

7.4
Acting

One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry, which punctures the rhyt...

An Audience with Kylie

An Audience with Kylie

2023

as Self

6.8
Acting

Performing a selection of her greatest hits plus songs from her latest album ‘Tension’. There will also be some surprise collaborations and Kylie will...

Catherine Called Birdy

Catherine Called Birdy

2022

as Lord Rollo

6.1
Acting

A teenage girl in Medieval England navigates life and tries to avoid the arranged marriages her father maps out for her.

Being James Bond

Being James Bond

2021

as Self (archive footage)

7.7
Acting

Daniel Craig candidly reflects on his 15 year adventure as James Bond. Including never-before-seen archival footage from Casino Royale to the upcoming...

Oslo

Oslo

2021

as Terje Rød-Larsen

6.5
Acting

The true story of negotiations between implacable enemies — the secret back-channel talks, unlikely friendships and quiet heroics of a small but commi...

Cognition

Cognition

2020

as Elias

6.5
Acting

Journeying through the symbolic landscape of the subconscious mind, the story follows an unbreakable bond between father and son. A bond that transcen...

Three Kings

Three Kings

2020

as Patrick

Acting

When Patrick is eight years old his absent father returns unexpectedly and in a brief but memorable encounter, sets him the challenge of "The Three Ki...

1917

1917

2019

as Lieutenant Leslie

8.0
Acting

At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hu...

National Theatre Live: Present Laughter

National Theatre Live: Present Laughter

2019

as Garry Essendine

8.4
Acting

As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry Essendine’s colourful life is in danger of spiralling out of control. Engulfed by an es...

A Dark Place

A Dark Place

2018

as Donald Devlin

6.0
Acting

When a young boy turns up dead in a sleepy Pennsylvania town, a local sanitation truck driver, Donald, plays detective, embarking on a precarious and ...

King Lear

King Lear

2018

as Edgar

6.0
Acting

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

The Delinquent Season

The Delinquent Season

2018

as Chris

6.2
Acting

In Dublin, two couples (Jim and Danielle; Yvonne and Chris) are seemingly living in marital bliss. However, when Chris's behaviour begins to change, Y...

Hamlet

Hamlet

2018

as Hamlet

6.4
Acting

Hamlet captures the Almeida Theatre's 2017 acclaimed production of William Shakespeare's great play, recorded as-live in its West End transfer on the ...

Handsome Devil

Handsome Devil

2017

as Dan Sherry

7.1
Acting

A music-mad 16-year-old outcast at a rugby-mad boarding school forms an unlikely friendship with his dashing new roommate.

This Beautiful Fantastic

This Beautiful Fantastic

2016

as Vernon

7.1
Acting

Set against the backdrop of a beautiful garden in the heart of London, this contemporary fairy tale revolves around the unlikely friendship between a ...

Denial

Denial

2016

as Anthony Julius

6.9
Acting

Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a reno...

Swallows and Amazons

Swallows and Amazons

2016

as Lazlov

6.3
Acting

Four children dream of escaping the tedium of a summer holiday with their mother. When finally given permission to camp on their own on an island in t...

The Hope Rooms

The Hope Rooms

2016

as Sean

Acting

An estranged father, Eamonn, and his son, Sean, meet up after 15 years at a café in London to heal old wounds.

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Alice Through the Looking Glass

2016

as Addison Bennett

6.6
Acting

Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

2016

as Professor Moriarty

7.8
Acting

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in 1890s London in this holiday special.

Victor Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein

2015

as Inspector Turpin

6.0
Acting

Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

Spectre

Spectre

2015

as C

6.6
Acting

A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret servic...

Pride

Pride

2014

as Gethin

7.7
Acting

In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is only one p...

Jimmy's Hall

Jimmy's Hall

2014

as Father Seamus

6.7
Acting

Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition from the local parish.

Locke

Locke

2014

as Donal (voice)

6.9
Acting

Ivan Locke has worked hard to craft a good life for himself. Tonight, that life will collapse around him. On the eve of the biggest challenge of his c...

Unlocking Sherlock

Unlocking Sherlock

2014

as Himself / Jim Moriarty

7.8
Acting

Explore how writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss created the hit television sensation. Take a personal voyage through the versions of Holmes that ha...

Legacy

Legacy

2013

as Viktor Koslov

5.1
Acting

A KGB plot to attack the UK has plunged Britain into a state of emergency. Charles, a young MI6 spy, is asked to revive an old friendship with Russian...

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

2013

6.2
Acting

To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage, bringing together the best Brit...

The Stag

The Stag

2013

as Davin

5.9
Acting

At his fiancée’s urging, a very modern Irish groom-to-be reluctantly agrees to a stag weekend with his friends, camping in the western wilderness of I...

The Scapegoat

The Scapegoat

2012

as Paul

6.4
Acting

In 1952, as England prepares for the coronation, two very different men have one thing in common—a face.

Sea Wall

Sea Wall

2012

as Alex

7.7
Acting

A man makes sense of his life, love, family and the possibility of faith whilst facing an emotional abyss.

Chasing Cotards

Chasing Cotards

2011

as Hart Elliot-Hinwood

6.3
Acting

Once a successful artist, Hart is now a shadow of his former self, his world torn apart by loss. He is consumed by a haunting portrait of his deceased...

Lennon Naked

Lennon Naked

2010

as Paul McCartney

5.7
Acting

A profile of John Lennon in the late 1960s as the Beatles are set to fall apart.

Silent Things

Silent Things

2010

as Jake

7.5
Acting

An autistic man and woman's friendship becomes tested when a 15-year old girl comes between them.

Anton Chekhov's The Duel

Anton Chekhov's The Duel

2010

as Laevsky

6.2
Acting

Set in a seaside resort in the Caucasus, the story centers on n'er do well, Laevsky and his illicit relationship with his mistress Nadya. Laevsky has ...

Little White Lie

Little White Lie

2008

as Barry

4.0
Acting

Follows the story of a luckless actor named Barry who has recently split from his girlfriend. He is seen wallowing at home in his pyjamas, where he be...

The Quatermass Experiment

The Quatermass Experiment

2005

as Vernon

5.6
Acting

Bernard Quatermass heads the futuristic Experimental Rocket Group whose greatest voyage is coming to an end, but after a dramatic crash landing Victor...

Dead Bodies

Dead Bodies

2003

as Tommy McGann

5.5
Acting

The return of a vengeful ex-girlfriend sets into motion a series of gruesome events for a hapless Irish bachelor in director Robert Quinn's grim black...

Killing Hitler

Killing Hitler

2003

as Sniper

5.8
Acting

A drama-documentary about Operation Foxley, a 1944 British plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

Nora

Nora

2000

as Michael Bodkin

5.2
Acting

In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibite...

Longitude

Longitude

2000

as John Campbell

7.2
Acting

Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.

Sweety Barrett

Sweety Barrett

1999

as Danny

5.6
Acting

Sweety Barrett is a giant of a man with the mind of a child. An easy target in a corrupt world, Sweety becomes embroiled in a smuggling operation unle...

The American

The American

1998

as Valentin de Bellegarde

5.8
Acting

After the horror of the Civil War, 'ignorant' Christopher Newman made his fortune. He travels to France is search of cultural treasures. He won't get ...

Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan

1998

as Soldier on the Beach

8.2
Acting

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain Joh...

Miracle at Midnight

Miracle at Midnight

1998

as Michael Grunbaum

7.3
Acting

Gripping historical drama presents a triumphant celebration of the human spirit. The true-life story of how one Danish family risked their lives in a ...

Drinking Crude

Drinking Crude

1997

as Paul

3.5
Acting

After failing school, 18 year old Irish leaves his small town of Kerry to find work. In London, he finds a job at an oil refinery and befriends a crud...

Korea

Korea

1996

as Eamon Doyle

7.0
Acting

Set in 1950s rural Ireland, this is a powerful story of the relationship between father and so. Amid emigration and war, John Doyle’s feud with Ben Mo...

The Love She Sought

The Love She Sought

1990

as Child in classroom

6.2
Acting

An aging school teacher (Lansbury) at a Catholic grammar school in Minnesota questions her life's existence when she has to start battling a new bisho...

Pressure

Pressure

N/A

as James Stagg

Acting

In the seventy two hours leading up to D-Day, all the pieces are in place except for one key element – the British weather. Britain’s chief meteorolog...

Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness

N/A

as (voice)

Acting

Based on Joseph Conrad's novel, Marlow captains a leaky steamboat up the River Congo in search of a mysterious figure named Kurtz who has carved out a...

A Place in Hell

N/A

Acting

A top criminal defense attorney, known for representing unlikeable clients in high-profile cases, is a relentless workhorse at her firm and fully expe...